Dietary Aide

Senescent Healthcare; Sugar Grove (IL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Senescent Healthcare is seeking kitchen support staff to assist in preparing meals for assisted living and retirement facilities. You will wash, cut, and prepare vegetables and fruits, and help with meats, poultry, and seafood handling.

Your duties include serving meals, setting tables, and maintaining dining areas. You may assist with events and ensure cleanliness and sanitary food handling throughout shifts.

Qualifications

• Education less than high school or up to one month related experience or training.
• Ability to read a limited number of words and recognize similarities between words and numbers.
• Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Responsibilities

• Wash, peel, cut, and seed vegetables and fruits.
• Clean, cut, and grind meats, poultry, and seafood.
• Serve meals and deliver additional food or substitutes from kitchen to dining area.
• Set tables for meals and maintain dining room areas.
• Assist with preparation for events and clean up after meals.

Skills

Food prep

Dishwashing

Food safety

Education

No high school diploma required

Job description

Assistother workers engaged in preparing foods, setting up diningarea, serving, clearing, and cleaning, for assisted living and retirement facilities by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESinclude the following.

• Wash, peel, cut, and seed vegetables and fruits.
• Clean, cut, and grindmeats, poultry, and seafood.
• Dip food items in crumbs, flour, and batter to bread them.Stir and strain soups and sauces.
• Weigh and measuredesignatedingredients.
• Carry pans, kettles, and trays of food to and from workstations,stove, and refrigerator.
• Store foods in designated areas andassistwith stock storage upon delivery.
• Understand stored food rotation andassistwith rotating product.
• Clean work areas, equipment and utensils, segregates and removes garbage,
• Distribute supplies, utensils, and portable equipment.
• Serve meals and deliveradditionalfood or substitutes fromkitchento both diningroom(CNA’sare notpermittedto leave the dining room).
• Is able to work independently as well as a team member with a positive attitude.
• Maintain dining room area.
• Set tables for meals including condiments on all tables prior tomeal time.
• Clean tables after meals, washes dishes, silverware, glassware,potsand pans.
• Assistwith preparation forspecial eventssuch as birthdays.
• Vacuum and sweep around area after meals.
• Assistwith washing and sterilization of utensils.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Toperform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilityrequired. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Less than high school education; or up toone monthrelated experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between wordsand betweenseries of numbers.Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add and subtracttwo digitnumbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's.Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply commonsenseunderstanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICALDEMANDS

Thephysical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employeeis regularly required touse hands to finger, handle, or feel.The employeefrequentlyis required tostand and reach with hands and arms.The employeeis occasionally required towalk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell.The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORKENVIRONMENT

Thework environment characteristics described here are representative ofthose anemployee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Willing to work beyond normal working hours, weekends, and on holidays.

Insurance, vacation, 401K for FT employees